Questions tagged [high-current]
Say how much current is required, high-current means different things to different people.
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Thermal cutoff for a high current mains application
I'm designing an inrush current limiter for a large rack which will under normal conditions draw ~25 A at 230 VAC. I'd like to be able to trip the current carrying live wire if the temperature in my ...
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What value of inductance and type of inductor should i choose for my motor driver circuit? [closed]
I am current design a DC motor driver circuit for 24 volts and 50 amperes since the motors I am using take 25 amperes nominally. I will be using PWM signal to control the output. I was suggested to ...
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Low voltage / high current rectifier using MOSFET
I was wondering if the following approach to make a very low voltage / high current rectifier (~0.1 V, 1 kA DC) from 230 V AC has any sense or not. Aiming at simplicity rather than effectiveness, I ...
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Two-Channel PWM LED Driving at 12A Load Issue (Signals affect each other)
I am designing a two-channel PWM LED driver. It will switch 24V LED strips at 12 amps. Each strip has two white LED chips. Each channel complements the duty-cycle of the other one (i.e. while one ...
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High current, slow turn-on, low ripple power supply
I am a hobbyist and I'm trying to make a power supply that withstands a few amps load, that also has a slow turn-on and low ripple. I'm powering up an ESP32-Cam that's pretty sensitive to ripple and ...
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RS-550 DC motor controller 24V (35-70) A working range and a stall of 120A
I am currently designing a motor controller for a SUMO robotics challenge.
Each of a two motor setup exhibits a (0.15-0.40) N.m torque resulting them pulling (35-70) Amps nominally and a peak of 120 ...
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Smoothing out current spikes so three-phase machine doesn't exceed site's electrical supply
We are looking at installing a machine at one of our manufacturing sites that draws around 120A at 415V three-phase (we are in the UK) but the maximum current we can draw at our site is 100A before ...
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ULN2803 relay driver working for high loads
I am trying to understand the working of this Darlington transistor array. I am using it for inductive loads and for driving the loads of my relays, but now I am trying to understand the part of its ...
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If I use a 19V 4.7A supply to a MAX 250W ATX power supply am I an idiot or should it be safe enough?
I can do the maths, I get near 90W, but I'm only planning to draw under a quarter of the power supplies (ebay link) rated max of 5V/12V combo (estimated load 30W). I therefore consider my 19V old ...
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What is a “safe” amount of amps to draw from this pack
I've been working on a quadruped project, and need some help determining the... safety... of my power system.
To start, there's two packs, a larger "main" and a smaller "reserve"
the two packs are ...
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Is Inductor peak current same as the Inductor Inrush current
I am using a DC-DC converter which is having an inductor rating of 68uH and 2.05A.
Output Voltage of dc-dc is 23V and output current max is 300mA
Schematic :
I am using a current probe and ...
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12v 25A power distribution PCB design
The goal is to control 18 devices by using rocker switches with LED. The total ampere can be up to 25A.
The PCB size is 150mm x 250mm. The configuration is FR-4 with 2 oz/ft^2 copper. The bottom ...
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Creating High current DC Power supply [closed]
I have the following resources:
Input - 24 V 80 Ah DC Battery (Car Battery)
Output, what i want:
12V DC with <2 Amp for driving some of the sensors.
5V DC with <2 Amp for driving micro ...
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1000uF capacitor to protect 5v 30amp circuit
I wish to build a LED cube but have no experience in shift registers so I am building one with addressable LEDs that can draw 60mA each. I want to make an 8x8x8 cube so that would be 512 LEDs and 30....
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lightning current with isolated cable
I am trying to understand what happend when designing a lightning protection system using isolated cable (with specified separation distance, lets say in this case with 0.5m).
Following IEC 62305 I ...
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How to have a load pull more current from a low voltage high current battery
I am designing a pair of heated pants and have run into an issue with having to use batteries (or any other portable power source) to power them.
What I have now is about 50ft of Teflon wire with 5Ω ...
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N-MOSFET not passing current when gate is high (SPICE)
I'm having a very strange issue with some power MOSFET circuits I'm trying to build for regulated high-current pulses. I can get my circuit to work fine when I use a lower-amperage power MOSFET, but ...
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Thyristors problem in a 1800v capacitor discharge system
I have two thyristors “R1275nc21x, they are Westcode thyristor and have some issues in my application.
I want to make a capacitor draining system with 1800V charged and it can discharge to the coil (...
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High Power Variable Potential Divider
I have a DC high voltage (>270V) high current (>40A) circuit which needs to power a standard LED along the way to a heater. The LED is to indicate whether or not the heater is activated.
I'm ...
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How should I modify a welder to add a pedal to enable the output?
I'm restoring/improving an old welder rated 3.2 kW input, 115 A DC output, 52 V no load.
I'm adding a ready made soft-start circuit based on a NTC plus bypass relay rated 100 A and capacitors to ...
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High current over 5V on PCB panes instead of track
I have leds running for around 600 Watts of 5V leds (120 amps).
The source of the power are three 48V to 5V converters which each can handle 200 watts.
If I would run this amount of Amps over my PCB ...
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10 Amp Current Limit
I have a 28VDC, high current supply (constant voltage) that is required to charge an emergency power supply.
These EPS internals are rated at 15 amps max input current, however, it’s stipulated that ...
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Ground separation between ADC and high current capacitor discharge circuit
I recently designed a capacitor discharge welder for my welding applications, and I come through a problem about separating grounds between AGND of the controller and (-) terminal of the big 1.3 ...
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Connect multiple source pins together to power signal in Eaglesoft
According to PCB shown below, I have a bunch of MOSFETs with HSOF package with 7 pins of source for each and failed to connect EVERY pin to the connector. In other words, when routing the source ...
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Multiple switching LED drivers on single PCB
I am working on a high power LED board project. It requires to have 100 LEDs, of different types and colors. There will need to be 17 individual strands (need to be able to dim them separate.) Max ...
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Stacking M.O.T. to create an E-E core
I just came across this site looking for answers on some questions I have concerning microwave oven transformers (M.O.T.). I am currently going into my third year as an E.E. student and I am trying to ...
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Can single phase AC produce a continuous electric arc?
Constant DC supply and 3 phase AC (in mercury rectifier) can produce a continuous arc. But can single phase AC also produce a continuous arc? Because it is written on the web that arc extinguishes at ...
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Oscilloscope high voltage and current measurements
I have been tasked with measuring both the voltage and current output of a plasma system but have only been provided and oscilloscope to do this (Tektonix TBS 2000 Series 100MHz, 1G/s) and a high ...
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Supercapacitor based lightning-harvester [closed]
Could lightning discharges be harvested and stored in supercapacitor banks? Could supercapacitors withstand and collect lightning?
Lightning usually lasts for about 10 micro seconds and reaches ...
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Standards for colour of conductors of pre-assembled cables
We are designing a product for industrial energy storage systems. Multiple units are connected with pre-fabricated cable assemblies of 2-4 separate leads that are terminated in connectors unique to ...
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How to design a contactless mechanical shaker [closed]
I am trying to design a circuit to make an inductor oscillate with high-current (around 50A) at a low frequency. The inductor will act as a high-powered electromagnet.
Most designs I've worked/messed ...
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High current on PCB to through hole connector
If I have a though-hole connector with 3.5mm pin spacing and the manufacture rates it for 14 amps per contact, how am I supposed to safely carry anywhere near that current over the PCB? Specifically, ...
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What capacitor to use for high voltage & high current filter application
I am designing a filter that needs a capacitor. I am not allowed to paste the schematic here, so only the maximum voltage at and current through the cap, pasted from the spice simulation:
(voltage is ...
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Proper capacitors for ESP8266-12F?, resetting at high current peak
When using the ESP8266-12F on a PCB I designed myself it keeps resetting after a high current spike of another module (Sim800L). I ofcourse tried to solve this using capacitors but I seem to have made ...
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2000A current sensing using STM32
Is there any chance to read 2000A using STM32? I searched the Internet for low-value shunt resistor but nothing found. maybe some kind of current transformer could do the job!!
any help will be ...
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Safe Voltage/Amperage for Soldered Wires - aka When to Crimp Instead
I have found a lot of information that circles around what I'm looking for, but nothing that directly answers it. It is possible there is no right answer.
I am jealous of the Macbook ...
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Which resistors to use for high current (10A) voltage-divider? [closed]
I'm having a problem determining resistor specs (especially wattage) for my voltage divider circuit [ 27 V to 17.5 \$+-\$ 0.5 V ] on 10 ampere DC supply.
I have an AC (220V 50Hz) to DC (27V 10A) ...
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How to safely limit current for DC12v 30a?
I am plating my vias with electrolysis, and I need to safely limit the current so it doesn't go over 30 amps.
The power supply I'm going to order is, you guessed it, 12V 30A.
I've calculated the ...
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Multiplexing high current connections?
Noob question here.
Currently I'm using a darlington transistor array to drive about 14 IR leds. I want to be use a CD74HC4067 multiplexer to simplify and shrink things up a bit. The IR led's I'm ...
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Suggestions solutions for high current bed of nails style testing [closed]
I'm trying to create a tester board that will hold some power path components (DC input caps, IGBTs, current sensors) that are normally on the Unit Under Test (UUT).
I'd like to connect these ...
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Sizing cables in pulsed power applications
I am looking for rules for sizing cables for short pulses. For example, if I were to run 2000A DC current for 0.5 seconds in a cable, what size would I need? Sizing as if it were continuous current ...
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High voltage and current
I have a DC motor that needs and works nearly 400v and 20A. I chose FDL100N50 for n-channel mosfet also IXTK40P50P for p-channel mosfet.
I connect a 4n35 optocupler for output of every mosfet.
Are ...
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Joining high current wires outdoors
I am conducting an experiment where I would like to heat up 18 AWG copper cables outdoors using to 50-60°C using 60 amps. The wires are wrapped with teflon to prevent damage to the cable. Can I use a ...
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Series pass transistor, LM7812
I am making a 12 volt regulator for a solar panel to power an audio amplifier. I already have a switching regulator for most application but it is very noisy for amplifier even with a lot of filtering....
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Shorting the output of both the channels of L298N
Suppose I started with a project requiring the control of motors and ended with using L298N in my project, realizing that my motor only takes around 1.5A when on load.
Now, with time I realized that ...
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High current, low voltage capacitors
I'm putting together a high current (200A+), low voltage (<5v) rectifier circuit.
I have sufficient bridge rectifiers, but to smooth out the waveform I need a strong enough capacitor bank. Besides ...
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Stabilize circuit on 5V 2A
I have not yet build following circuit:
Circuit in high performance needs 5V 1.7A (measured). I have source which is powerbank with 16 000 mAh. Outputting via ports: USB-C 5V/3A, USB-A 5V/3A, Micro-...
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Sizing a trace on a PCB to carry 50 amps
Currently working on a 4 layer pcb-card where I need to trace for 50 amps, any ideas how I can design it?
Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Electric heating for glass melting furnace
Some furnaces use electricity for glass melting. Low voltage and high amperage power is passed through the molten glass through 2 molybednum electrodes dipped into the glass. The molten glass acts as ...
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How to generate a high energy electromagnetic wave? Using high voltage or high current?
I am about generating an electromagnetic wave which should be powerful enough. So I should manipulate its electric field and magnetic field simultaneously. As far as I know E amplitude depends on the ...
